The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1887-10-01
A fraid of Little.

The Newark Daily 14dvergiser is doing
al it can to bring before the public that
long promised letter Of Staff Titles "for
sake In recent article it
tries to open the circus in the the follow
ing rather bantering effusiou:
"Mr. Henry Staff Little has been credit
ed, for many years, with having in his
a charge of dynamite which,
when judiciously exploded, would (hgura-
lively speaking) blow Senator John r.
Mcpherson sky-high. With a considera-
tion almost inexplicable, Mr.. Little has
refrained from firing this much talked-of
explosive. People have stood around
Mr. Little in throngs. waiting for the
fun to begin. Years have passed while
the general public, weary Of the long de-
lay, has gradually let itself down from
the tiptoe position which it had assumed
when the first announcement of the ex-
pected explosion was made. Like the
promised repentance Of semi contrite sin
ner, the final act has been postponed again
and again, and 90 many times that most
people have associated in their minds Mr..
Titles threatened exposure Of McPher-
son with the Keely motor and the ma
tionalization of Ireland. With customary
regularity, we are once more assured, as
the Fall campaign draws on apace, that
Mr.. Henry staff Little's dynamite gun is
in working order it will soon go off and
the fragments of the doomed politician
will 60 whirling through the air in
demoralized condition. Mr. Little's
friends have made so many promises, OF
threats, that cayiiling and irrevereut
generation, when Little's dynamite is
mentioned, calls out Gratis r There has
been sedulously fostered in the public
mind notion that the explosive material
is harmless and the machine gun myth
thing of the Imagination. We might
fairly be justified in expressing profound
disbelief in the renowned semi annual
promise of the explosion, this Fall, il
Mr.. Mcpherson himself had not taken
steps to reassure us. His recent letter
on the subject Of his candidacy, incon-
elusive though it was as to the main
point involved, seems to be like the re-
mark of the historic coon to Captain
Scott s'Don't shoot, and I'll come
down." In thisvery queer letter, Sena-
tor Mcpherson says he will not scramble
But the letter is preparation for q
scramble. It shows that the writer is
making ready to get out of the way as
soon as he sees the gun pointed in his
direction.
On the whole, therefore, the prospects
of an entertaining exhibition. very soon
are fattering. Hitherto, it must be adj
mitted, Senator Mcpherson has APP
parently shared in the very general in
credulity concerning Mr.. Henry s. Littte's
dynamite. Perhaps this is an assumed
incredulity on Mr.. McPherson's part bu
he has certainly pooh poohed the whole
business with great contempt. The frs
indication of his alarm is an intimatior
that he may get out of the way under
certain underlined contingencies. 1t il
tolerably clear that one OF those contin-
gencies is the possible publication of tht
long expected and often-deferred letter O
Mr.. H. S. Little. But, if the present pre-
liminary canvass for the Senatorship shall
pass without the explosion, there is an
other one coming. State Senators to b
chosen this Fall will vote in the election
when Mr.. Mcpherson may, or may not
be candidate. But, next year, othe
Senators, and also Assemblymen, who ar,
to participate in that contest, are to b.
elected If Mr.. Little really and truly ha'
charge of political dynamite ready, HI
may fire it off now or he may wait unit
next year. 1t will keep. But, unless it il
very strong dynamite indeed. it will no
amount to much when it does come. Their,
is such thing as exhausting popular ex-
pectation. Thus far, we can only guess
after all, that the letter-writing Senator
real name is 'Senator-afraid of Little"